School of Advanced Study events brochure May - Sept. 2011

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Contents The School of Advanced Study Institutes of the School Events at the School Highlights: University of London Trust Fund events Dean’s Seminars Inaugural lecture Visiting Professorial Fellow lecture Summer schools Conferences and symposia Events calendar Research training Calls for papers How to find us

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The School of Advanced Study The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the only institution of its kind in the UK nationally funded to promote and facilitate research in the humanities and social sciences.

The School brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of ten prestigious research institutes at the centre of the University of London to provide a unique environment for the support, evaluation and pursuit of research which is accessible to all Higher Education institutions in the UK and the rest of the world.

Member Institutes of the School: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Musical Research Institute of Philosophy Institute for the Study of the Americas Warburg Institute The School also hosts a cross-disciplinary centre. The Human Rights Consortium, founded in 2009, brings together the multidisciplinary expertise in human rights found in several institutes of the School, as well as collaborating with individuals and organisations with an interest in the subject. The main aim of the Consortium is to facilitate, promote and disseminate academic and policy work on human rights by holding conferences and seminars, hosting visiting fellows, coordinating the publication of high quality work in the field, and establishing a network of human rights researchers, policy-makers and practitioners across the UK and internationally, with a view to collaborating on a range of activities.

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Institutes of the School

Institutes of the School INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in 1947 as a national academic institution serving all universities through its national legal research library. Its function is to promote, facilitate and disseminate the results of advanced study and research in the discipline of law, for the benefit of persons and institutions in the UK and abroad. Its areas of speciality include arbitration and dispute settlement, company law, comparative law, economic crime, financial services law and legislative studies and law reform, and the legal profession and delivery of legal services.

W: www.ials.sas.ac.uk | E: ials@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 5800 INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES The Institute of Classical Studies (IClS) is a national and international research centre for the study of the languages, literature, history, art, archaeology and philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Founded in 1953, it provides an internationally renowned research library available to scholars from universities throughout the world, in association with the Hellenic and Roman Societies. IClS also serves as the meeting place of the main Classics organisations in the UK. W: www.icls.sas.ac.uk | E: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8700

INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) is the only postgraduate academic institution in the UK devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. Founded in 1949, its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary and inter-regional research on the Commonwealth and its member nations in the fields of history, politics and other social sciences. Its areas of specialism include international development, governance, human rights, north-south relations and conflict and security. It is also home to the longest-running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented human rights MA programme in the UK. W: www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk | E: ics@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8844 INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES The Institute of English Studies (IES), founded in 1999, exists to facilitate advanced study and research in English studies within the University of London and in the wider academic community, national and international. Its Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies covers such fields of study as palaeography, history of printing, manuscript and print relations, history of publishing and the book trade, textual criticism and theory and the electronic book.

W: www.ies.sas.ac.uk | E: ies@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8675

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) was established in 2004 with the merger of the Institute of Germanic Studies and the Institute of Romance Studies, founded in 1950 and 1989 respectively. Its purpose is to promote and facilitate the study of the cultures of regions speaking the Germanic and Romance languages across a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields in the humanities.

W: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk | E: igrs@sas.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7862 8677

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INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Founded in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is at the centre of the study of academic history. It provides a stimulating research environment supported by the IHR’s two research centres: the Centre for Metropolitan History and the Victoria County History; is home to an outstanding open access library, hosts events and seminars and has a dedicated programme of research training.

W: www.history.ac.uk | E: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8740

INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH Established in 2006, the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) was set up as a university-wide and national resource with a commitment to foster musical research in all its diversity. The IMR offers a unique meeting point for researchers and postgraduate students across the UK and acts as a hub for collaborative work on a national and international scale.

W: www.music.sas.ac.uk | E: music@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7664 4865

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY The Institute of Philosophy (IP) was founded in 2005, building upon and developing the work of the Philosophy Programme from 1995–2005. The Institute’s mission is to promote and support philosophy of the highest quality in all its forms, both inside and outside the University, and across the UK. Its activities divide into three kinds: events, fellowships and research facilitation.

W: www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk | E: philosophy@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8683

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) was founded in 2004 through the merger of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of United States Studies, both of which were established in 1965. ISA promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and postgraduate teaching in history and the social sciences on the Americas – Canada, the US, Latin America and the Caribbean – and plays a national and international role as a coordinating and information centre for all parts of the hemisphere at the postgraduate level in the universities of the UK. W: www.americas.sas.ac.uk | E: americas@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8870 WARBURG INSTITUTE The Warburg Institute (WI), incorporated in the University in 1944, exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition – those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilisation. The bias is not towards ‘classical’ values in art and literature: students and scholars will find represented all the strands that link medieval and modern civilisation with its origins in the ancient cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean.

W: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk | E: warburg@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8949 www.sas.ac.uk

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Events at the School

Events at the School The institutes of the School collectively offer a wide range of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. The events programme of the School is unrivalled in its scale, focus and quality. Each year around 1,400 events are organised in the School on humanities and social science topics, attracting over 30,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area.

The School brings together scholars, representatives from academic, public, and private organisations, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public from the local community, the UK and beyond to participate in its varied programme of events. Over 3,000 speakers, around one-third of whom are from outside the UK, are welcomed annually to contribute to the intellectual culture of the School.

The majority of our events are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the access to current research and interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation these events afford.

Senate House by Gary Alexander © University of London

The full list of forthcoming and past events held by the School can be found at www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

How to use this guide Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the time, the institute responsible for organising the event, the type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title and speaker where appropriate. There is further information about the highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about the School’s research training events at the end. Please check our website (www.sas.ac.uk) for full information.

Subject area key C - classics

H - history

P - philosophy

Cu - culture, language & literature

Hu - human rights

Po - politics

D - development studies

L - law

S - sociology & anthropology

E - economics

M - music

Booking The majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. The event information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change.

Please check our website for the latest information, www.sas.ac.uk/events.html, or email sas.events@sas.ac.uk Event podcasts Selected School events are recorded and available to view, listen to, or download online at www.sas.ac.uk/podcasts.html Mailing list Sign up to our mailing list to receive information on events of interest to you by emailing sas.events@sas.ac.uk or via the School’s website at www.sas.ac.uk Follow us on University of London – School of Advanced Study 4

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Highlights

Highlights 10 May 2011 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute Lecture IALS Lecture Theatre

Duplication as distance - Erasmus Alber’s Alcoranus Franciscanorum (1542-3) and its reception: a case study in 16th-century comparative religion Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Contact: elizabeth.witchell@sas.ac.uk

University of London Trust Fund events The School organises an annual University Trust Fund programme of prestigious public lectures, recitals and readings. All are welcome.

3 May 2011 18:00–21:00 Institute of Historical Research John Coffin memorial lecture Beveridge Hall

The idea of the university: Newman and now

6 May 2011 18:00–19:30 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial Irish studies lecture Chancellor’s Hall

The historian and the contemporary Irish crisis

6 May 2011 18:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Coffin Trust reading Room ST274/275

Esther Tusquets: Anna Maria Matute

7 May 2011 18:30–20:20 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Coffin Trust reading Room ST274/275

Hélia Correia

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Stefan Collini (Cambridge) The lecture will be followed by a wine reception in the Macmillan Hall.

Contact: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Diarmaid Ferriter (University College, Dublin) Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern History at UCD, is one of the most influential commentators on Ireland in the 20th Century, with work that spans social, cultural and political history. As well as being an influential historian, he is a public intellectual, whose dynamic and engaging work has brought a new charge and freshness to the discipline.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing at the Institute in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes.

Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk

Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing at the Institute in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes.

Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk

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9 May 2011 18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University Trust Fund lecture and reading Chancellor’s Hall

Our words and theirs. A reflection on the historian’s craft today

11 May 2011 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute John Coffin memorial lecture in the history of ideas Warburg Institute

La Rochefoucauld, little learning and the love of truth

2 June 2011 18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies Hilda Hulme memorial lecture Beveridge Hall

“Ha-ha-ha. Hi-hi-hi. Ho-ho-ho. Ha-hi-ho”: representing sounds in 16th and 17th century English literature

Lecture and reading by Carlo Ginzburg The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Ian Maclean (Oxford) The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: elizabeth.witchell@sas.ac.uk

H. R. Woudhuysen (UCL) Henry Woudhuysen is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL. For nearly twenty years he has been involved in editing volumes relating to English Renaissance drama published by the Malone Society and is a General Editor of the third series of the Arden Shakespeare. He is co-general editor of the Oxford Companion to the Book and from 2005 he has been principal adviser to the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, an AHRC-funded project based at the Institute of English Studies. He is currently editing the poems of Sir Philip Sidney for Longmans Annotated Poets.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

13 June 2011 18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial lecture in English Chancellor’s Hall

John Coffin memorial lecture in English Michael Wood (Princeton) Michael Wood, Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, is currently the Chair of the English Department and, from 1995-2001, he was the Director of Gauss Seminars in Criticism. He is the recipient of many fellowships and honours, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and is an ongoing Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. The lecture is given in conjunction with the conference, ‘Joycean Literature: Fiction and Poetry 19102010’.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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17 June 2011 18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial poetry reading Heythrop College

The power of the poetic word Michael Symmons Roberts (poet & writer; Manchester Metropolitan) Michael was born in 1963 in Preston, Lancashire and read Philosophy & Theology at Oxford. He trained as a newspaper journalist before joining the BBC as a radio producer, then as a documentary filmmaker, before leaving to focus on writing. His 4th book of poetry, Corpus, was the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Griffin International Prize. He has previously received the Society of Authors’ Gregory Award for British poets under 30, the K Blundell Trust Award, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for his 2001 collection Burning Babylon.

His continuing collaboration with composer James MacMillan has led to two BBC Proms choral commissions, song cycles, music theatre works and a new opera for the Welsh National Opera, The Sacrifice, which won the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Award. His work for radio includes A Fearful Symmetry for Radio 4, which won the Sandford St Martin Prize, and Last Words commissioned

by Radio 4 to mark the first anniversary of 9/11. His first novel Patrick’s Alphabet was published by Jonathan Cape in 2006, and his second Breath in 2008. He is a trustee of the Arvon Foundation, and Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The reading is given in conjunction with the conference, ‘The Power of the Word: Poetry, Theology and Life’.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

24 June 2011 18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University Trust Fund lecture and reading Room ST274/275

The house of mirth: Jewish Italian reflections

28 June 2011 18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial lecture in the history of the book Room G22/26

John Coffin memorial lecture in the history of the book

Lecture and reading by Alberto Cavaglion The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Adrian Johns (Chicago; Chair, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science) Adrian Johns has recently published Death of a pirate: British Broadcasting and the Origins of the Information Age (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). The book focuses on a shooting in 1960s Britain that brought to a head the challenge of pirate radio stations to the public broadcasting monopoly held by the BBC. From this starting-point it expands to address the politics of broadcasting, culture, and public authority that lay behind the incident. It also outlines the role of pirate media in the emergence of neoliberalism, with connections to today’s digital culture.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights

13 September 2011 18:00–20:30 Institute of Musical Research John Coffin Trust Fund recital The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great

Medieval song network The Orlando Consort Recital in connection with the Medieval Song Network The recital will be followed by a wine reception.

Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Dean’s Seminars The Dean’s Seminars, chaired by the Dean of the School, are a series of lunchtime research seminars, which aim to promote cross-disciplinary debate in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Seminars are free to attend and open to all - booking is not required. Participants may bring their lunch.

18 May 2011 12:30–14:00 Room G34

School history in the twentieth century: a story of decline or progress?

15 June 2011 12:30–14:00 Room G22

Waste and literature: the poet as ragpicker

Nicola Sheldon & Jenny Keating (both Institute of Historical Research)

Susan Morrison (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies)

Inaugural lecture All welcome. Free to attend.

1 June 2011 18:00–19:00 Warburg Institute Inaugural lecture Beveridge Hall

Thinking about the audience in rhetoric, literature and painting Peter Mack (Director, Warburg Institute) RSVP: elizabeth.witchell@sas.ac.uk

Visiting Professorial Fellow lecture All welcome. Free to attend.

12 May 2011 School of Advanced Study Visiting Professorial Fellow lecture Charles Clore House

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Self-knowledge in Augustine Professor Charles Brittain of the Program in Ancient Philosophy and the Departments of Classics and Philosophy at Cornell University is the School’s ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow, Jan-Jun 2011.

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Summer schools

Summer schools 20–24 June 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

London palaeography summer school Speakers include: Debby Banham (Birkbeck; Cambridge), Elizabeth Danbury (UCL), Charalambos Dendrinos (Royal Holloway), Carlotta Dionisotti (King’s, London), Anthony Edwards (De Montfort), Carol Farr, Peter Kidd, Georgios C. Liakopoulos (Athens), Patricia Lovett (Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society), Dorothea McEwan (Warburg Institute), Marigold Norbye (UCL), Anna Somfai (Central European University), Jenny Stratford (Institute of Historical Research), Hanna Vorholt (Warburg Institute), Rowan Watson (V&A Museum), Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute), James Willoughby (Oxford) Contact: cmps@sas.ac.uk

27 June–8 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

London rare books school Speakers include: John Barnard, Michelle Brown, Alan Cole, Catherine DelanoSmith, Anthony Edwards, Simon Eliot, John Feather, Irving Finkel, David Ganz, Paul Goldman, Matthew Nicholls, Marigold Norbye, Nicholas Pickwoad, Kathryn E. Piquette, Jane Roberts, Nigel Roche, Jill Shefrin, Iain Stevenson, Sarah Tyacke, Wim Van Mierlo, Rowan Watson, Laurence Worms Contact: cmps@sas.ac.uk

9–17 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

The T. S. Eliot international summer school Speakers include: Daniel Albright (Harvard), Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College), Michael Coyle (Colgate), Robert Crawford (St Andrews), Lyndall Gordon (Oxford), Jason Harding (Durham), John Kelly (Oxford), William Marx (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense),Timothy Materer (Missouri), Craig Raine (Oxford), Sir Christopher Ricks (Boston), Ronald Schuchard (Emory), Anne Stillman (Cambridge) and Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies) Contact: cmps@sas.ac.uk

11–13 July 2011 Institute of Historical Research Wolfson Room

Local history summer school The school, taught by experts from the University of London, the National Archives, the British Library, the Victoria County History and the London Metropolitan Archives, amongst others, is open to all researchers in local history.

It will include two main strands: sources and techniques and themes.

Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

18–23 July 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST274/275

Use your language, use your English This translation summer school is aimed at academics, students and graduates from a range of disciplines and is designed for those with some translating experience, substantial experience, or those with none. It offers the opportunity to study with leading translators whose work you may know and who will share their knowledge and expertise with you.

Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia

Conferences and symposia 6–7 May 2011 09:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Feminine singular/feminino singular/femenino singular: women growing up through life-writing in the Luso-Hispanic world Keynote speakers: Anna Caballé, Hélia Correia, Clara Crabbé Rocha with Esther Tusquets Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk

6–7 May 2011 Institute of Musical Research University of Bangor

Interconnections: the science, art, and practice of music Keynote speaker: John Irving (Institute of Musical Research) Workshop: Daniel Müllensiefen (Goldsmiths) Convenors: Elina Hamilton (Bangor) and Mats Küssner (King’s, London) Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

6 May 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Senate Room

Thought and talk about fictional entities Amie Thomasson (Miami), Sarah Sawyer (Sussex), Andrew McGoniga (Leeds), Stacie Friend (Heythrop) Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and Mind Association

6 May 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Room G22/26

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The Dominican Republic: issues and prospects The Dominican Republic is a relevant country to study as a role model of development given that its legacies and characteristics are common to many developing economies. While sharing many of the same challenges, the Dominican Republic has experienced comparatively rapid economic growth and improvements in a variety of development indicators. But much remains to be done as restraining inflation and maintaining overall macroeconomic stability is necessary though not sufficient for achieving sustainable economic growth and development. This conference will aim to throw light on some of country’s challenges by focusing on the labour market, macroeconomic and exchange rate dynamics, monetary and fiscal policies, foreign trade, and cocoa production.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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7 May 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Institute of Archaeology

South American archaeology Vincent Chamussy (Paris), Donna Nash (North Carolina Greensboro), Ryan Williams (Field Museum of Natural History), Alden Yépez (canton Sigsig, Ecuador), Kevin Lane (Free University of Berlin), Adam Herring (Southern Methodist), Florencio Delgado (San Francisco de Quito) Contact: b.sillar@ucl.ac.uk Co-sponsored by the Institute of Archaeology, UCL

9 May 2011 Institute of English Studies Various

British Academy Literature Week conference Leading writers, academics and practitioners come together in a series of events which make up the British Academy’s second Literature Week. Three of the Academy’s established literary lectures are being brought together in an expanded programme which also features panel discussions, readings and “in conversation” events.

Each day features a pair of linked events, starting at 18:00 with an hour-long reading or discussion, followed by a short tea break, then a lecture or panel discussion at 19:15pm. Each evening ends with a reception around 20:15.

All events are free and take place at Shakespeare’s Globe, the British Academy (10 Carlton House Terrace), and Senate House.

All welcome. Advance booking required.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

10 May 2011 09:30–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Stewart House

Policing in the Ibero-American world This conference is dedicated to police and law-and-order issues in the IberoAmerican world (Spain, Portugal and Latin America). Despite the prominent role that the police have had on the political and social development of all the countries concerned, academic research has been relatively sparse. This event will bring together for the first time six of the leading scholars in the field from the UK and Spain for a multi-disciplinary perspective on these crucial, yet often overlooked issues for one of the largest global community of nations.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Jointly organised with the Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science

10 May 2011 13:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Court Room

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Gender and social policy in Latin America.

Current research directions The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and to present new research on gender, social policy and social protection initiatives in Latin America.

Organisers: Professor Maxine Molyneux (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Dr. Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck) Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk This event is an activity of the Latin America Social Policy Network

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12 May 2011 09:45–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Room ST274/275

Conditionals and vagueness: celebrating the work of Dorothy Edgington

13 May 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

Romantic identities selves in society, 1770-1835

Timothy Williamson (Oxford), John Hawthorne (Oxfor), Ofra Magidor (Oxford), Daniel Rothschild (Oxford), Scott Sturgeon (Oxford), Nick Jones (Institute of Philosophy), Ruth Weintraub (Tel Aviv), David Over (Durham) and Dorothy Edgington Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Political and military conflict, the proliferation of print culture and the diverse aesthetics espoused by competing authors all served to make the Romantic period one in which creating, assuming and redefining different kinds of identities was of critical importance. Increased interest in the lives and characters of writers, particularly in periodicals, constrained certain authors while provoking others to develop new forms of self-expression. Effectively manipulating identities was also critical to the period’s burgeoning theatrical culture, in debates about hierarchies of forms and genres, and in the works and reception of female and working-class writers. The interplay of these competing self-presentations has had wide-ranging and continuing consequences, including the posthumous canonisation of certain writers of the period as Romantics while others remain neglected.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

13 May 2011 09:30–18:00 Institute of Musical Research Chancellor’s Hall

Inside song performance: mapping the interior of the performative act Helen Abbott (Bangor), Paul Barker (Central School of Speech & Drama), Amanda Glauert (Royal College of Music), Sholto Kynoch (Pianist; Director, Oxford Lieder Festival), Fiona Sampson (poet), Kathryn Whitney (Institute of Musical Research; Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama) Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk In association with the Royal Musical Association

14 May 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Institute of Musical Research Charles Clore House

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Latin American music Fiorella Montero (Royal Holloway), Gonzalo Araoz (Cumbria), Ruth Hellier (Winchester), James Kent (Royal Holloway), Lorna Dillon (King’s, London), Johnny Rodriguez Contact: h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk

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16 May 2011 09:30–17:30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Charles Clore House

It takes two to tango: the Council of Europe and the European Union. EU Accession to ECHR and GRECO - the policy issues and some implications Chair: Lord John Tomlinson Simone White (OLAF European Anti-Fraud Office; Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Caroline Ten Dam (Legal Service, European Commission), Tobias Lock (UCL), Wolfgang Rau (Executive Secretary, GRECO), Livia Stoica Becht (MONEYVAL, Council of Europe), Vasil Kirov (OLAF European Anti-Fraud Office) Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

16 May 2011 18:00–20:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Chancellor’s Hall

Homophobia: once a virtue, now a reason for shame Robert Wintemute (King’s, London), Renato Sabbadini (Co-Secretary General of ILGA) Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk

17–18 May 2011 Institute of Musical Research Stewart House & Chancellor’s Hall

Music in Middle Eastern cinema Conference incorporating the spring meeting of the Middle East and Central Asia Forum Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk In association with the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange, City University, the Iran Heritage Foundation and the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS

17 May 2011 10:00–16:45 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Chancellor’s Hall

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The United Kingdom overseas territories: continuity and change This conference will consider the issues and challenges facing small sub-national jurisdictions in the global political economy. Particularly it will focus on those territories which retain formal links to European countries namely the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands. Within this context, there will be a stronger emphasis on the UK territories. This is for two reasons. First, we would like to revisit some of the issues debated five years ago in a conference entitled ‘The UK Overseas Territories: Past, Present and Future’ held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Second, with a new British government in place it is worthwhile considering the nature of the new relationship and how it might develop over the coming years. However, in order to provide a wider context, comparative developments in the French and Dutch territories will be investigated Contact: dmkillingray@hotmail.com

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19 May 2011 09:00–18:00 School of Advanced Study Human Rights Consortium Senate & Stewart Houses

London Debates 2011: Is there a future for human rights in a non-Western world?

20 May 2011 09:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Room G32

Aboriginal Canadian biopolitics and biopower

The London Debates is a series of international discussion workshops that bring together outstanding early-career researchers and invited senior researchers to consider a subject of broad concern in the humanities and social sciences. The final sessions of the closed workshops are dedicated to the drafting of a report, subsequently published by the School of Advanced Study.

Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk

Many diverse indigenous populations around the globe experience marginalization as they confront a vast array of issues resulting from both historical injustices and contemporary global challenges. By encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of biopower and biopolitics this colloquium seeks to bring together academics and other professionals with an interest in indigenous studies in Canada, as well as to explore the broader global challenges of health and well-being in Indigenous communities.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Organised in collaboration with the British Association for Canadian Studies’ Aboriginal Studies Circle

20 May 2011 09:30–18:45 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST274/275

Modernist eroticisms Co-ordinators: Katharina Schaffner (Kent; Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) and Shane Weller (Kent) Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk Jointly organised with the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent

20 May 2011 09:45–18:30 Institute of Philosophy Room G22/26

Morality of freedom: 25 years on John Tasioulas (UCL), Leslie Green (Oxford), AJ Julius (UCLA) Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk Supported by Oxford University Press

26–27 May 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST273

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8th international postgraduate conference on current research in Austrian literature Co-ordinator: Martin Liebscher (London) This annual conference, which consistently draws participants from both Europe and America, offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature an opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists. In the afternoon of the second day, there will be an open seminar with writer-in-residence Anna Kim. Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk Organised by Ingeborg Bachmann Centre www.sas.ac.uk

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26–28 May 2011 Institute of Musical Research Canterbury Christ Church University

Baltic musics and musicologies Keynote speakers: Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway) and Kevin Karnes (Emory) Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk In association with Canterbury Christ Church University and the Sounds New Music Festival

26 May 2011 12:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Macmillan & Chancellor’s Halls

In the shadow of the ICC: Colombia and international criminal justice

3 June 2011 09:30–18:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST273

Youth challenges traditions? Reconsidering changes in Austrian and British society 19601989

Convenors: David Cantor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) and Par Engstrom (Human Rights Consortium) The conference engages with the profound themes of peace and justice that have been brought into sharp focus by Colombia’s ratification of the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor’s strategy towards the country. In particular, from the perspective of ongoing ICC investigations into the violations committed during the Colombian armed conflict the conference engages with the core question of whether the pursuit of peace and justice in Colombia is inherently conflictual or whether efforts to address both can be reconciled within the broader context of processes of conflict resolution and democratisation.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Co-ordinators: Bianca Zaininger and Martin Liebscher (London) “The survival of mankind will depend to a large extent on the ability of people who think differently to act together” – Geert Hofstede Well into the 21st century, the time has come to re-evaluate how traditions have been challenged through different forms of culture in both Austria and Britain in the second half of the 20th century. The generational unit most often linked with challenging traditions is ‘youth’, first identified as a social and cultural phenomenon in the 1950s. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s many attempts were made - mainly, but not only, by young people - to challenge taken-forgranted traditions which the parental generation had brought from the past. The conference aims to investigate various ways in which norms in society have been questioned, opposed and, in some cases, changed by youth.

Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk Organised by Ingeborg Bachmann Centre

3 June 2011 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute Warburg Institute

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Tommaso Campanella and the arts of writing Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Contact: elizabeth.witchell@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 13–14 June 2011 09:00–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Room G22/26

Identity/identities in late medieval Cyprus

13 June 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

Joycean literature: fiction and poetry 1910-2010

13 June 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Senate Room

Responding to climate change in the Caribbean

16 June 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Room ST274/275

Aesthetics, art and pornography

Contact: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Plenary Speakers: Derek Attridge (York) and, as John Coffin Memorial Lecturer, Michael Wood (Princeton) James Joyce’s influence on literature has been enormous. This conference will examine Joyce’s complex international impact on fiction, long or short, and on poetry. The field remains under-explored. Valuable studies have appeared: either following the links between Joyce and individual authors (Beckett most obviously) or asking about Joyce’s example for the twentieth-century avant-garde. In Irish Studies, too, a strong sense has obtained of Joyce as challenge and example.

But much productive work remains to be done to bring these strands together, to broaden the range of influences considered, and to ask critical questions about the nature of influence and legacy.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Paul Sutton (London Metropolitan) A policy-focused conference, bringing together academic researchers, officials from Caribbean governments and international agencies, as well as representatives of the private sector and non-government organisations working in the field. It will assess progress to date and highlight lessons learned from the problems and obstacles as well as successes, to identify requirements for effective, forward-looking responses to climate change challenges in the years ahead.

Contact: emily.morris@sas.ac.uk

Main speakers: Martin Kemp (Oxford), Jerrold Levinson (Maryland), Jesse Prinz (CUNY), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham), Stephen Mumford (Nottingham), Pamela Church-Gibson (University of the Arts) Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk Supported by the American Society for Aesthetics, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the School of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Kent

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17–18 June 2011 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute Warburg Institute

Francis Bacon and the materiality of the appetites: stoicism, medicine and politics

17 June 2011 09:30–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Chancellor’s Hall

The future of UK modern languages

Miranda Anderson, Sorana Corneanu, Marta Fattori, Guido Giglioni, Dana Jalobeanu, Vera Keller, Rhodri Lewis, Peter Mack, Cesare Pastorino, Richard Serjeantson, Ian G. Stewart, Sir Brian Vickers, Sophie Weeks, Daniel Andersson and Silvia Manzo.

Organised by Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) as part of an ERC research project on ‘The Medicine of the Mind and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England. Natural philosophy, politics and religion are the three ‘provinces’ of human learning on which Bacon concentrated as a philosopher. A unifying motif in his otherwise extensive and diverse production can be found in the notion of material appetite. Bacon envisaged nature as the domain of primordial, conflicting appetites which he described as original motions in matter. The principal aim of this colloquium is to outline the rich and variegated context, both intellectual and material, behind Bacon’s theory of natural and social appetites.

Contact: elizabeth.witchell@sas.ac.uk

In the light of recent budget cuts, amalgamations and closures across UK Modern Language departments, this conference seeks to address what aspects of Modern Languages and Cultures can and should realistically be taught and researched at British universities. Equally importantly, it will explore whether teaching and learning foreign languages in disconnection from the contexts provided by comprehensive literary, cultural and area studies can enable students in secondary and higher education to develop the intercultural and media literacies, conceptual insights and socio-critical thinking required in today’s global economy and society. The event is a way of bringing together academics, politicians, people from the private and public sector and the media to raise common concerns and see where we may be able to go from here.

Contact: marcus.erridge@sas.ac.uk Jointly organised with the Modern Humanities Research Association

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17 June 2011 10:00–17:30 Institute of English Studies Heythrop College

The power of the word: poetry, theology and life Keynote Speakers: Gianni Vattimo (Turin), Helen Wilcox (Bangor), M. Paul Gallagher (Gregorian, Rome), Paul Fiddes (Oxford). Other invited speakers include: John Took (UCL), Jay Parini (Middlebury College, Vermont), OlivierThomas Venard (Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem), Antonio Spadaro (Gregorian, Rome), Stefano Maria Casella (IULM, Milan), Florian Mussgnug (UCL), Georg Langenhorst (Augsburg) Religion has always been part of Western literary traditions. Many canonical literary texts engage extensively with theology and religious faith and practice, and theological and spiritual writers make liberal use of literary genres, tropes and strategies. Recent work in philosophy of religion, theology, the study of religions and literary criticism has once again brought to the fore issues which arise when literature, faith, theology and life meet, whether in harmony or in conflict. This international conference aims to: foster a dialogue among scholars in theology, philosophy, spirituality and literature and between these and creative writers; discuss the ‘truth’ of poetry and the ‘truth’ of theology in relation to each other; reassess the idea of poetry as a criticism of life; discuss the relationship between faith, theology and the creative imagination through an examination of theoretical issues and the study of specific texts; examine the importance of poetry for personal and social identity, social cohesion and relations between faiths and cultures.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk Organised in collaboration with Heythrop College

20 June 2011 09:30–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas British Library

Jornadas REDIAL/ACLAIIR This year’s meeting of the Hispanic Studies library group, ACLAIIR, will be a joint event with the continental European association REDIAL (Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina). It will be held at the British Library at St Pancras and at the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

The first day will include presentations of research projects on Latin America by leading UK academics and also introductions to two major commercial projects on interest to Latin Americanists. The second day will be devoted to REDIAL’s own projects and it is hoped that meeting in London may encourage greater collaboration between UK and continental European information providers and librarians.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk In association with the Hispanic Studies library group (ACLAIIR) and Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL)

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20 June 2011 10:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Charles Clore House

The Great Depression in the Americas and its legacies This event will explore the social and political legacies of the Great Depression of the 1930s on the Americas. The current global financial crisis has produced (i) a new vantage point from which to re-assess the history of what remains (although that may change) the deepest economic crisis of the modern era and (ii) a re-assessment in policy circles of the nature, impact, and responses to the Great Depression. Among historians of the United States and Latin America, there is broad consensus that the Great Depression was a watershed. The direct economic impact of the slump varied from country to country. Some Latin American countries, such as Chile, were particularly badly hit, as were many economies in the Caribbean, but overall most countries recovered their pre1929 GDP levels by the mid-1930s and 1937 in the case of the United States.

But the slump set in motion, or deepened, a number of broader social and political processes that would radically alter the history of all the countries of the Americas.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk In association with the Crises of Capitalism in the Americas Research Network (COCARN)

23 June 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Chancellor’s Hall

The state of aesthetics Winner of the Institute of Philosophy annual call for conferences competition Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk In conjunction with the University of Nottingham, the Open University and the University of Leeds

25 June 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Wolfson & Pollard Rooms

New histories of 19th century crime This event brings together practitioners of quantitative and qualitative approaches to crime in history.

Contact: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk Co-hosted with Liverpool John Moores University

28–30 June 2011 09:30–16:30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Charles Clore House

Sovereignty in question Plenary speakers will include: Damian Chalmers (LSE), Paul Craig (Oxford), David Feldman (Cambridge), Sir Christopher Greenwood QC (Judge, International Court of Justice), Jeffrey Goldsworthy (Monash), Carol Harlow (LSE), Lord Hope of Craighead (UK Supreme Court), Jeffrey Jowell (UCL), Martin Loughlin (LSE), John Morison (Queens, Belfast), Aidan O’Neill QC (Matrix Chambers), Dan Sarooshi (Oxford), Joanne Scott (UCL), Adam Tomkins (Glasgow), Neil Walker (Edinburgh) Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

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28 June 2011 11:00–19:00 Institute of Musical Research King’s College London

Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations Op.120 Convenor: Malcolm Miller (Institute of Musical Research; Open) Guest speakers to include Stephen Kovacevich and William Kinderman Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk In association with the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe

29 June–1 July 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Senate House

Audiovisual translation: taking stock The 4th International Media for All Conference aims to bring together professionals, scholars, practitioners and other interested parties to explore audiovisual translation (AVT) in theory and practice, to ascertain the language needs of distributors and broadcasters, to discuss the linguistic and cultural dimensions of AVT, to look into potential synergies between the industry and the academic worlds, and to investigate the relevance and application of translation theory for this very specific and rapidly expanding translational genre. Special attention will be given to the notion of accessibility to information and to the social and economic implications of implementing appropriate quality standards.

Contact: j.diaz-cintas@imperial.ac.uk

29 June–1 July 2011 09:00–21:00 Institute of Historical Research Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS

2011 Anglo-American Conference: health in history Plenary lecturers include David Arnold, Joanna Bourke, Samuel Cohn, Mary Fissell, Monica Green, Helen King and Paul Starr. The conference will also feature a Publishers’ Fair and a Policy Forum with key academic and professional health experts.

This year, the Institute of Historical Research will be holding its flagship event, the Anglo-American Conference, on the subject of ‘health in history’. The history of medicine and of human society in sickness and health is an ever widening window through which the present can view the past. The study of the ways in which societies over time and at war and in peace have defined and treated their’sick’, the changing content and status of medical expertise and ethics, and those episodic moments when the globe has been transformed by epidemic, panic and panacea is now an integral part of mainstream history. The field of medical history stretches from palaeopathology through to contemporary political debates over healthcare and genomics. And the medical humanities are now critically placed in most cultures at the meeting point of research and social policy. The 80th Anglo-American Conference of Historians will feature papers and panels across all periods and areas of the history of medicine.

Contact: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

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1–2 July 2011 Institute of Musical Research King’s College London

Opera and philosophy Keynotes: Lydia Goehr (Columbia), Gary Tomlinson (Pennsylvania), Kendall Walton (Michigan) Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk In association with the RMA Music and Philosophy Study group, King’s College London, the British Society of Aesthetics and the Centre for Music on Stage and Screen (University of Nottingham)

5–6 July 2011 09:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Room G22/26

Ancient literary criticism

5 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

Ezra Pound and London

6 July 2011 09:30–18:00 Institute of Historical Research Charles Clore House

Shadow cities: realities and representations

Contact: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

The conference will be held in the city where Pound spent the pivotal years of 1908 to 1920 and a place that figures prominently in his work. In addition to four days of papers and panels on Pound and others’ work, special events planned include walking tours of Pound’s Kensington and Pound’s Bloomsbury, as well visits to the Courtauld Gallery and the Tate. Additional plans include a reception in Fleet Street, a reading of contemporary poetry related to Pound, the conference banquet, and a two-day excursion after the meeting (10-11 July) to sites in Sussex and Kent, including visits to Stone Cottage, Henry James’s Lamb House, and other modernist locales.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Nandini Gooptu (Oxford), Derek Keene (Institute of Historical Research), Alan Mayne (South Australia), Susan Parnell (Cape Town) More than a billion people live in improvised dwellings or shanty towns in the early twenty-first century. Whether in inner cities or on the outskirts of a metropolis, these settlements have been dubbed “Shadow Cities” by Robert Neuwirth. The aim of this conference is to investigate and explain the historical existence of Shadow Cities, their varying nature in different historical and geographical circumstances - such as medieval Europe, 19th century North America or the 20th century global South - the living conditions and experiences of their inhabitants, and the perceptions or representations of such settlements.

Contact: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR) in association with the University of Cape Town

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7–9 July 2011 Institute of Musical Research University of Surrey

Mahler: contemporary of the past?

Keynote: Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway) Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk In association with the University of Surrey

15 July 2011 10:00–16:30 Institute of Historical Research School of Advanced Study Charles Clore House

Open access publishing in the humanities

18 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

Victorian Popular Fiction Association 3rd annual conference: sex, courtship and marriage in Victorian popular culture

Contact: peter.webster@sas.ac.uk In association with SAS-Space

Keynote speakers: Andrew King (Canterbury Christ Church), Jennifer Phegley (Missouri-Kansas City) The themes to be developed at this conference are ideas of sex, courtship and marriage, and the ways in which they are explored and represented in Victorian popular culture. This theme enables us to develop our interdisciplinary interests in nineteenth-century culture, and our understanding of the many and varied attitudes towards relationships throughout the Victorian period.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk Organised by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association

20 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

Literary London 2011: representations of London in literature

25 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

Language, culture and society in Russian/ English studies

Each year, the Literary London conference invites scholars workin in a broad range of literary and related areas to consider any period or genre of literature about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-classical times to its imagined futures.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

This conference is devoted to the development of English and Russian studies, lexicography, sociolinguistics, English teaching in Russia, and the History of the Book.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk Organised and sponsored by the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Linguistics and The Journal of Philology

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29 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

English literary manuscripts 1450-1700 A one-day conference to celebrate the launch online of the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 (CELM) at the Institute of English Studies, compiled by Peter Beal in collaboration with John Lavagnino and Henry Woudhuysen.

Papers on subjects relating to English manuscripts of this period, taking no longer than 15/20 minutes each, will be delivered by scholars including: Carlo Bajetta, Peter Beal, Joshua Eckhardt, Germaine Greer (keynote speaker), Elizabeth Hageman, Grace Ioppolo, Gerard Kilroy, Tom Lockwood, Arthur Marotti, Steven May, Richard Serjeantson, and Ray Siemens.

Free to attend. Advance registration is required.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk Sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council

26 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Senate House

EACLALS postgraduate conference: reworking postcolonialism: globalization, labour and rights Frank Schulze-Engler (Goethe, Frankfurt) In light of these challenges, this conference aims to provide a space for postgraduate students, faculty, independent scholars and artists to critically reflect upon the themes of globalization, labour and rights. The question of whether postcolonial studies has eroded or reaffirmed concepts of labour and rights with both their Marxist or European affiliations requires more debate. In this respect, the conference particularly welcomes culturalist approaches that introduce alternative perspectives to European thought.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

7–9 September 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Venue tbc

Designing the Commodities Gateway: challenges in representing and accessing commodity histories digitally The Commodities Gateway is an initiative of the Commodities of Empire British Academy Research Project (CoE), a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Open University’s Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies. Its aim is to make available online a growing database of links to primary and secondary documents relevant to commodity histories. This workshop (participation by invitation only) will focus on a critical discussion of the digital technologies used to design the Gateway and access documents. Topics covered will include: identification of what’s worked well and not so well and why; linked data approach, use of GIS technologies; federated search facility and source capture; digital world inequalities: digitisation and access issues, and how these can be addressed; digital dissemination and the experience of the past; and new networking and collaborative possibilities.

Contact: jonathan.currymachado@wur.nl

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8 September 2011 14:45–14:45 Institute of English Studies Senate House

Spectres of world literature Keynote speakers: Neil Lazarus, Nicholas Brown, Sarah Brouillette Over the last twenty years the idea of an ever more integrated ‘global village’ has become received wisdom. The impact on traditional academic disciplines in the humanities has been profound. In seeking to engage with the changes in the world system usually ranged under the banner of ‘globalization’, the fields of postcolonial, world and comparative literature have extended the scope of metropolitan literary studies. Yet all too often this has been to the detriment of inter- or multi-disciplinary research attentive to the structural inequalities underlying the production and reception of literary texts in what Franco Moretti (2000) has called the ‘world literary system’. The conference will bring together leading international scholars working in and around these areas who reject the triumphalist discourse of globalization and seek instead to recalibrate the field of world literature from a materialist postcolonial perspective.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

14–16 September 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST274/275

German-speaking exiles in the performing arts in Britain

15 September 2011 09:30–18:00 Institute of English Studies Senate House

The popular imagination and the dawn of modernism: middlebrow writing 1890-1930

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2011 Conference of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speakers include: Ann Ardis (Delaware) and Adina Ciugureanu (Ovidius University Constanta, Romania) This conference seeks to examine the emergence of modernism outside elitist, avant-garde notions, particularly focussing on middlebrow literature. Based on the assumption that such works reached a far wider audience than those of the avant-garde, this conference aims to advance research on the production, dissemination and reception of middlebrow and popular fiction between 1890 and 1930.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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21–23 September 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST274/275

Postdramatic theatre as/or political theatre: representation, mediatisation and advanced capitalism The primary question for this conference is to enquire about the political claims of postdramatic theatre’s challenge to dramatic norms, in the light of Brecht’s concerns about the representability of the modern world. Does theatre that seemingly absolves itself of determinate analysis of the problems we face and possible solutions to them in fact capitulate to powers beyond our control? Does the focus on performance and perception replicate the complexity of advanced modernity, rather than analysing or explaining it? Or can the political in theatre only ever be an ‘interruption of the political’ as we know it, as Lehmann suggests, central to which is the liberation from a ‘closed’ theatre of predetermined text and determinate meaning? Would drama that claims to offer an overview on modernity therefore be little more than a form of affirmation and consolation?

This conference will ask where twentieth and twenty-first century theatre might be located within the nexus of post-Brechtian and Artaudian conceptualisations of the value of theatre, and its capacity for engaging with and offering responses to an increasingly complex and mediated world.

Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk In collaboration with the University of Nottingham and the University of Lancaster

23 September 2011 09:30–17:30 Institute of English Studies Senate House

The writing of Rose Macaulay Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a distinguished and very popular British writer, journalist, critic and traveller, a novelist and poet who wrote prolifically with a searching eye and a critical conscience. She is, however, much understudied.

University curricula and anthologies tend only to use a handful of her war poems, and two or three of her later novels as examplars of her work. Some of her works are in print, most are not, and while her name is included in many literary biographies and studies of writers and literary figures of the period, and her opinions are routinely quoted as representative of her period, many of her works are not well known. Recent work by Sarah LeFanu, David Hein and Alice Crawford shows that there is academic interest in Macaulay’s writing, and popular interest in her life. This symposium offers an opportunity to focus the mind on Rose Macaulay’s writing in her life, and to consider her work in its cultural context.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

23 September 2011 10:30–17:00 Institute of English Studies / Institute of Musical Research Room G22/26

Don Juan: interdisciplinary symposium Convenors: Fiona Richards, Delia da Sousa Correa, Robert Samuels and Katia Chornik Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk In association with the Open University Literature and Music Research Group

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27 September 2011 10:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Senate Room

Eric Williams and the making of modern Trinidad and Tobago Speakers include: Colin Palmer (Princeton), Selwyn Ryan (West Indies, St Augustine), Brinsley Samaroo (West Indies, St Augustine), Paul Sutton (London Metropolitan) and Matthew Bishop (West Indies, St Augustine) To mark the centenary of the birth of Dr Eric Williams and in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of independence in Trinidad and Tobago, this one-day conference will explore the shaping of Trinidadian politics and society under the Williams’ administration and the legacies of this period today.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Funded by the Eric Williams Memorial Collection and sponsored by the High Commission of Trinidad and Tobago

30 September 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Room G22/26

Was autonomy the wrong ideal? Autonomous judgement and its critics Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk In conjunction with the AHRC Autonomy Project at Essex

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Events calendar

Events calendar Monday 2 May 2011 Institute of English Studies Research training Venue tbc

Medieval manuscript studies in the digital age For further information see research training p.73 Cu

Tuesday 3 May 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Research training Senate House

Visual sources for historians

10:00–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Research training Room 254, Library Training Suite

GIS for historians

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500-1800 Germany Room

Evangelical survivalism in Norfolk 1553-8: the careers of Protestant clerics and their patrons in the reign of Mary Tudor

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Anthony Rustell H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Locality & region Ecclesiastical History Room

Women writers and the Victoria County History

17:30–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies Accordia lecture Institute of Archaeology

Flax, sheep and the production of textiles in preRoman Italy

John Beckett (Nottingham) H

Margaret Gleba (UCL) C

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of libraries Room G37

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False leads, puzzles, and the occasional revelation: the Dunimarle Library Sandra Cumming (Banff) H

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18:00–21:00 Institute of Historical Research John Coffin memorial lecture Beveridge Hall

The idea of the university: Newman and now

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Wyndham Lewis reading group Room G35

Wyndham Lewis and his experiments with satire: phenomenology and the Apes of God

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Holly Emblem (Westminster) Cu

Wednesday 4 May 2011 12:30–14:00 Institute of English Studies Director’s seminar Room G34

An American critic among the English: Edmund Wilson’s attachments and antagonisms Lewis M. Dabney (Roma Tre) Cu

13:00–14:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Commonwealth research Room ST276

Zimbabwe - state failure

14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Director’s work in progress Warburg Institute

Aristotle and history

16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Friends of Germanic Studies AGM Stewart House

Benjamin Britten’s German texts

16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forum Room 104

History in the making: theatre and the past

17:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Classical archaeology Room G22/26

Visual identities: defining Roman virtues through Greek mythological exempla

Richard Bourne (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Po

Christopher Ligota H

Joyce P. Crick (London) Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk Cu

Tom Stern P

Zahra Newby (Warwick) C

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17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Psychoanalysis and history Freud Museum

Psychoanalysis and politics

18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture Charles Clore House

British sovereignty and the evolution of the ECHR

Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Daniel Pick (Birkbeck), Timothy Ashplant. Chair: Sally Alexander H

Ed Bates (Southampton) Hu, L

Thursday 5 May 2011 11:20–11:20 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of education Room G34

Has an open university always been an oxymoron? Openness and the Open University, 1969-2009 Dan Weinbren (Open) H

12:30–14:00 Institute of Philosophy Seminar series: IP lunchtime Room G35

The content of animal minds

16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Perception, senses and action forum Room STB8

Impact of crossmodal transfer of musical emotion on decision making

Colin Allen (Indiana) P

Joydeep Bhattacharya (Goldstmiths) P

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient history Room G22/26

Changing bodies: Barren fertile bodies: what changes?

Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge) C

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history 18151945 Room G21a

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Regionalism and separatism in the UK 1880-1920: the case of north east England and Ireland Robert Colls (Leicester) H

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17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35

Hybrid vocality in Byzantine and ‘Baroque’ times

17:00–18:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Maps and society Warburg Institute

Mapping the farthest western lands: Gerald of Wales on Ireland and English Imperium in the 12th century

Alex Constansis (Institute of Musical Research) Chair: John Irving (Institute of Musical Research) M

Diarmuid Scully (University College, Cork) Cu, H, S 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar series: American history Pollard Room

From the pirates of the Caribbean to hedge funds: the growth of North American tax havens

17:30–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Research training Room G27

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Comparative histories of Asia Room G37

Comparative histories of Asia

18:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research Lecture Beveridge Hall

Writing German history: a century of extremes

Christopher McKenna (Oxford) H

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Vinita Damodaran (Sussex) H

Gerald Steinacher, Tom Weber, Mary Fulbrook, Roger Moorehouse, and Richard Overy (Chair) H

18:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room 103

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Media Unlimited Todd Gitlin (Columbia, New York) Cu

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18:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Other events Room ST275

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Entre escritoras Laura Freixas (writer) on Carmen Martin Gaite Cu

Friday 6 May 2011 6–7 May 2011 09:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Feminine Singular/feminino singular/femenino singular: women growing up through life-writing in the Luso-Hispanic world

6–7 May 2011 Institute of Musical Research Postgraduate conference University of Bangor

Interconnections: the science, art, and practice of music

For more information see p.10 Cu

For more information see p.10 M

10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Senate Room

Thought and talk about fictional entities

10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

The Dominican Republic: issues and prospects

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Postgraduate work in progress Room G35

The Ancient Novel: Part I: Performing Callirhoe

18:00–19:30 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial Irish studies lecture Chancellor’s Hall

The historian and the contemporary Irish crisis

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For more information see p.10 P

For more information see p.10 E, H, S

Gillian Granville Bentley (King’s, London) C

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18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Finnegans Wake research Room G35

Finnegans Wake research

18:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Coffin Trust reading Room ST274/275

Esther Tusquets: Anna Maria Matute

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For more information see p.5 Cu

Saturday 7 May 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Institute of Archaeology

South American archaeology

10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST276

Organising a conference, giving a paper, writing an article, editing books and journals

11:00–13:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Modernism research Room G22/26

Everyday modernism

For more information see p.11 Cu

For further information see research training p.73

Chiara Briganti (Kings, London): ‘”Giving the mundane its due”: one (fine) day in the life of the everyday’ Sara Crangle (Sussex): ‘Modernist Sulking’ Cu

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: EMPHASIS (Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination) Room 104

Spiderman: Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712) and early modern theories of insect vectors and disease

18:30–20:20 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Coffin Trust reading Room ST274/275

Hélia Correia

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Monday 9 May 2011 9–13 May 2011 Warburg Institute Research training Warburg Institute

Resources and techniques for the study of Renaissance and early modern culture

Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Various

British Academy Literature Week conference

For further information see research training p.73

For more information see p.11 Cu

13:30–17:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: DeNOTE Room ST274/275

Domestic music making and the guitar in the early 19th century – an introduction with special emphasis on Vienna Speaker: Judy Tarling. Performers: Peter Lay (guitar), Clare Beesley (flute), Judy Tarling (viola), Kate Semmens (soprano) M

14:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Music in Britain: a social history Wolfson Room

Street music: 200 years of musical enterprise and achievement in Regent Street, 1813-2013 Guest speakers: Geoffrey Tyack (Oxford), Arthur Searle (Royal Philharmonic Society), Daniel Snowman (Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research), Christina Bashford (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mark Hines (architect), John Gilhooly (Royal Philharmonic Society; Wigmore Hall) H

16:00–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient philosophy Room G34

Plotinus’ number theory

16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute Seminar series: History of Art Warburg Institute

Ernst Kris, The Legend of the Artist (1934) and Mein Kampf

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Florida) C

Evonne Levy Cu, H

17:00–19:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room G35

Panel on the 2011 Peruvian general elections His Excellency Hernn Couturier (Ambassador of Peru), Mike Read (The Economist), John Crabtree (Latin American Centre, Oxford) H, Po

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May—September 2011

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Modern French history Pollard Room

The Lyon Commune of 1870-18

17:30–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Roman art Royal Holloway London Annex

Roman art

18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University Trust Fund lecture and reading Chancellor’s Hall

Our words and theirs. A reflection on the historian’s craft today

18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture Charles Clore House

Yemshaw and the constitutionality of updating statutes

Tim Baycroft (Sheffield) H

Michael Koortbojian (Princeton) C, Cu

For more information see p.6 Cu, H

Richard Ekins (Auckland) L

18:00–20:15 Institute of English Studies British Academy Literature Week lecture The Underglobe, Shakespeare’s Globe

‘Shakespeare poetry hour’ with actors from Shakespeare’s Globe & ‘Mind the gap - making meaning in the theatre’ Readings by actors from Shakespeare’s Globe, introduced by Jonathan Bate FBA (Warwick); Laurie Maguire (Oxford), introduced and chaired by Sir Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies) Cu

Tuesday 10 May 2011 09:30–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Stewart House

Policing in the Ibero-American world

13:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin America Social Policy Network workshop Court Room

Gender and social policy in Latin America.

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For more information see p.11 D, E, S

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17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: London group of historical geographers Wolfson Room

The Iroquois in the city and the enlightenment imaginary

17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute Lecture IALS Lecture Theatre

Duplication as distance - Erasmus Alber’s Alcoranus Franciscanorum (1542-3) and its reception: a case study in 16th-century comparative religion

Judith Still (Nottingham) H

Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) C, Cu, H, P 18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: International history Low Countries Room

Civil-military relations in Britain at the end of the Cold War Andrea Ellner (King’s, London) H

18:00–20:15 Institute of English Studies British Academy Literature Week lecture The British Academy

‘Contemporary satire - part of a great tradition?’ & ‘Pope’s ethical thinking’ John Mullan in conversation with Craig Brown and Posy Simmonds; Christopher Tilmouth (Cambridge) Cu

19:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: London society for medieval studies Wolfson Room

The nature and dynamics of knowledge in late medieval French anthology manuscripts Karen Pratt (King’s, London) H

Wednesday 11 May 2011 12:30–14:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar Room G37

Negotiating with apartheid: the mission of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group 1986 Stuart Mole (Senior Research Associate, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (CPSU), Institute of Commonwealth Studies) D, E, H, Hu, P, Po

16:30–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies Michael Ventris memorial lecture Room G22/26

Becoming palatial in eastern Crete: the case of Petras (Siteia) Metaxia Tsipopoulou (Athens) C

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17:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room 104

May—September 2011

Two, Three… many revolutions? Cuba and the prospects for revolutionary change in Latin America, 1968-1975 Tanya Harmer (LSE) H, Po

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Contemporary British history Wolfson Room

The search for security: food and the origins of the Second World War

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century Wolfson Room

Assessing Mary Prince (c. 1788-?): female traveller or anti-slavery campaigner?

17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute John Coffin memorial lecture in the history of ideas Warburg Institute

La Rochefoucauld, little learning and the love of truth

18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar Room ST273

Hidden memories: German-speaking exiles in Ireland

18:00–20:15 Institute of English Studies British Academy Literature Week lecture The British Academy

Phantasmagoria’ & ‘Many-coloured glass, aerial images and the work of the lens: romantic poetry and optical culture’

Patricia Clavin (Oxford) H

Beverley Duguid (Royal Holloway) H

For more information see p.6 Cu, P, S

Gisela Holfter (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; Limerick) Cu, H

Marina Warner FBA (Essex) in conversation with Hermione Lee FBA (Oxford) & Isobel Armstrong FBA (Birkbeck) Cu

Thursday 12 May 2011 09:45–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Conditionals and vagueness: celebrating the work of Dorothy Edgington For more information see p.12 P

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12:00–13:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: Work in progress Room ST276

Exile on the ‘Isle of Exile’? A research project on German-speaking refugees in Ireland 1933-1945

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient history Room G22/26

Changing bodies: Disgust and discipline: towards an ideology of the body in late Antiquity

Gisela Holfter (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; Limerick) Cu, H

Lucy Grig (Edinburgh) C

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35

Music is spatiotemporal: international music perception & cognition (MPC) research on movement, dance and time Christine Beckett (Concordia, Montreal) Chair: Geraint Wiggins (Goldsmiths) M

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the 17th century Germany Room

The Great Council of Peers (September-October 1640) and noble power on the eve of the Civil War

17:15–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies English Goethe Society lecture Room ST273

Hero or villain? The response of German authors to Frederick the Great, 1740-1786

17:30–19:45 School of Advanced Study ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow lecture Charles Clore House

Self-knowledge in Augustine

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Society, culture & belief, 1500-1800 Ecclesiastical History Room

Globalization, conquest and the making of European medical knowledge in the 18th century

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Richard Cust (Birmingham) H

Katrin Kohl (Oxford) Cu, H

For more information see p.8 C, Cu, H, P, S

Pratik Chakrabarti (Kent) H

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17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Postgraduate and early career Low Countries Room

Broadcasts of the Blitz: what Edward Murrow told the Americans

18:00–20:15 Institute of English Studies British Academy Literature Week lecture Beveridge Hall

‘Shakespeare’s cultural impact’ & ‘Biography on the stage’

Sean Dettman (Institute of Historical Research) H

Kate McLuskie (Shakespeare Institute) and Catherine Bunting (Arts Council England) in conversation with Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths); Panel discussion chaired by Robert Hewison (City) with Jonathan Bate FBA (Warwick) and leading theatre practitioners Cu

18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Hamlyn lecture 2011 Venue tbc

The rule of law and the measure of property: reconceiving the relation between property and the rule of law Jeremy Waldron (Oxford; New York) Chair: The Rt. Hon Lord Justice Sedley L

19:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Finnegans Wake research Room G37

University of London Joyce seminars in memory of Blanche Levenkind Cu

Friday 13 May 2011 Institute of English Studies BARS early career and postgraduate conference Senate House

Romantic identities selves in society, 1770-1835

09:30–18:00 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

Inside song performance: mapping the interior of the performative act

For more information see p.12 Cu

For more information see p.12 M

10:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Research training Room G22/26

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Researching the Caribbean: a research student workshop For further information see research training p.73

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May—September 2011

13:00–14:00 Institute of Musical Research DeNOTE lecture-recital University of Hull

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Beyond Beethoven’s texts Jane Booth (classical clarinet), George Kennaway (classical cello), John Irving (fortepiano; Institute of Musical Research) M

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Postgraduate work in progress Room G35

The Ancient Novel: Part II. Performing the edible man as consumable text: searching for female subjectivity in [Pseudo-]Lucian’s Onos Elizabeth Dollins (Exeter) C

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes Wolfson Room

Gardens of London’s Strand ‘palaces’ in the 16th and 17th centuries

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Room G34

Canto 78

Paula Henderson (Courtauld Institute) H

Mick Sheldon (independent scholar) Cu

Saturday 14 May 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Institute of Musical Research Workshop Charles Clore House

Latin American music

10:30–16:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training Charles Clore House

A training day for law PhDs

For more information see p.12 Cu, M

For further information see research training p.73 L

Monday 16 May 2011 09:30–17:30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore House

It takes two to tango: the Council of Europe and the European Union For more information see p.13 L

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14:00–15:00 Warburg Institute Lecture Warburg Institute

May—September 2011

Erasmus’s contribution to rhetoric: rhetoric’s role in Erasmus?

Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) C, Cu, H, P

16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: German philosophy Room G32

German philosophy reading group

16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute Seminar series: History of Art Warburg Institute

The cloister life of the emperor: art and devotion at Yuste from Charles V to Franco

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Piers Baker-Bates Cu, H,

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Crusades and the Latin East Ecclesiastical History Room

Perceptions and portrayals of Godfrey of Bouillon in 12th- and 13th-century crusade discourse

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: European history 1500-1800 Low Countries Room

Science fiction in the 17th century: Baroque trips through the cosmos

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Tudor & Stuart Wolfson Room

Conspiracies and consequences: some thoughts on the significance of Catholic secret histories of Elizabeth’s reign

Simon John (Swansea) H

Jacqueline Glomski (King’s, London) H

Peter Lake (Vanderbilt) H 17:30–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Roman art Royal Holloway London Annex

Speaking of the dead: the rhetorical strategies of Roman sarcophagi Zahra Newby (Warwick) C, Cu

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18:00–20:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference Chancellor’s Hall

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Homophobia: once a virtue, now a reason for shame For more information see p.13 Cu, Hu, L, P, Po, S

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends talk Room 102

Bestsellers I: Dracula, Bram Stoker

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Collecting & display 100BC to AD1700 Room G35

The collections of the Duchesse de Berry

18:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: Tertúlia Room ST276

Luisa Costa Gomes’s Short Stories

Minna Vuohelainen (Edge Hill) Cu

Philip Mansel (Historian; Editor of The Court Historian) C, H

Cu

Tuesday 17 May 2011 17–18 May 2011 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Stewart House & Chancellor’s Hall

Music in Middle Eastern cinema

10:00–16:45 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference Chancellor’s Hall

The United Kingdom overseas territories: continuity and change

For more information see p.13 M

For more information see p.13 Po

16:30–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies Guest lecture Venue tbc

Shifting lines: private and public space in the Greek polis Rachel Abramovitz (Tel Aviv) C

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17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500-1800 Germany Room

May—September 2011

Iconoclasm, alienation and rebirth: Peterhouse and its chapel in the context of the English Reformation Nicholas Tyacke (UCL) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Locality & region Ecclesiastical History Room

A London micro-history

17:30–19:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Room G37

Les Petits

18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture Charles Clore House

Colonial copyright

18:00–19:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Black Britain Room G34

Mariner, renegade and castaway: Chris Braithwaite, the Colonial Seamen’s Association and class struggle Pan-Africanism in late Imperial Britain

Carlos Galviz (Institute of Historical Research) H

French author Christine Angot reads from and discusses her latest novel Cu

Michael Birnhack (Tel-Aviv; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) H, L

Christian Hogsbjerg

Wednesday 18 May 2011 12:30–14:00 School of Advanced Study Dean’s seminar G34

School history in the twentieth century: a story of decline or progress?

For more information see p.8 H, S

13:00–14:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Commonwealth research Room 104

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Education in Cyprus during the 1940s Antigone Heraclidou (Docotoral research student, Institute of Commonwealth Studies) H, S

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May—September 2011

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14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Director’s work in progress Warburg Institute

Why does the Nile flood? Bartholomew of Bruges’ commentary on the De inundatione Nili

16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forum Room G35

Feckless reasons

17:15–20:05 Warburg Institute Seminar Warburg Institute

Humour and literature

18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar Room ST273

Austrian women in the eyes of the British armed forces

Pavel Blazek H

Dominic Lopes P

Pollie Bromilow (Liverpool), Sebastian Coxon (UCL) Cu, H, P, S

Isabel Schropper (London) Cu, H

Thursday 19 May 2011 09:00–18:00 School of Advanced Study Human Rights Consortium Conference / Symposium Senate & Stewart Houses

London Debates 2011: Is there a future for human rights in a non-Western world?

09:00–18:00 Institute of Historical Research Colloquium Wolfson & Pollard Rooms

Asa Briggs: a celebration

For more information see p.14 Hu, L, Po

Speakers include: David Cannadine (Princeton), Malcolm Chase (Leeds), Kean Seaton (Westminster) and Martin Hewitt (Manchester Metropolitan) H

15:40–15:40 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Film history Low Countries Room

George Arliss and the romance of capitalism

16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Perception, senses and action forum Room STB8

Colour categories and the caerulean line

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Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster) H

John Mollon (Cambridge) P

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16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient history Room G22/26

May—September 2011

Changing bodies: Past it at thirty: legs and running in ancient Greek culture James Davidson (Warwick) C

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history 18151945 Room G21a

British history 1815-1945 seminar

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Comparative histories of Asia Room G37

Comparative histories of Asia

17:30–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Linguistic human rights: policy/practice in the Commonwealth Room STB3/6

Language policy and practice in Mozambique: mapping nuanced transitions’

Vivienne Richmond (Goldsmiths) H

Rohan D’Souza (Jawaharlal Nehru) H

Hu, Po, S

Friday 20 May 2011 09:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room G32

Aboriginal Canadian biopolitics and biopower

09:30–18:45 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Modernist eroticisms

09:45–18:30 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

Morality of freedom: 25 years on

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16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Postgraduate work in progress Room G35

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Useful or not? The potentials and pitfalls of martyrologies as source material for the student of ancient history The Rev James Harris (Cardiff) C

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Performance / research seminar Chancellor’s Hall

What musicians can learn from working on stage with actors John Sloboda and colleagues from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama M

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Low Countries history Low Countries Room

English pamphleteering on the Dutch Revolt (1572-76) Catherine Buchanan (LSE) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Economic and social history of the premodern world, 15001800 Pollard Room

Economic and social history of the premodern world, 1500-1800

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Charles Peake Ulysses Room G35

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

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Saturday 21 May 2011 11:00–18:00 Institute of Classical Studies Virgil Society AGM & open forum Room G22/26

The Virgil Society past, present and future Philip Hardie (Cambridge): ‘Dido and Lucretia’ C

Monday 23 May 2011 14:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Charles Clore House

Trading or political blocs in Latin America Paulo Drinot (Institute for the Study of the Americas), Gian Luca Gardini (Bath), Mahrukh Doctor (Hull), Thomas Muhr (Bristol), Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (Oxford), Ken Schladen (LSE), John Crabtree (Oxford), PW Lambert, Maxine Molyneux (Institute for the Study of the Americas) E, Po

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May—September 2011

16:00–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient philosophy Room G34

On the concept of analysis

16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute Seminar series: History of art Warburg Institute

Revenge and art theory. Baglione on Caravaggio

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Voluntary action history Low Countries Room

19th-century voluntary organisations and urban green spaces

17:30–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Roman art Royal Holloway London Annex

The images of the “triad” of Heliopolis-Baalbek (Jupiter, Venus and Mercury): interpretations and iconographic problems

Jim Hankinson (Texas) C

Panayota Klagka Cu, H

Clare Hickman (Bristol) H

Andreas Kropp (Nottingham) C, Cu 18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture Charles Clore House

The coalition and the constitution Vernon Bogdanor CBE FBA (Institute of Contemporary History, King’s, London) L

Tuesday 24 May 2011 16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forum Room ST273

Crossmodal perception in the arts

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: London group of historical geographers Wolfson Room

Rehearsing statehood: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

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Casey O’Callaghan (Rice) P

Fiona McConnell (Cambridge) H

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May—September 2011

17:30–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar series: International refugee law Charles Clore House

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Is the Dublin regime really legal?

James Hathaway (Michigan), Wilbert Van Hovell (UNHCR Regional Representative for Western Europe)

Hu, L

17:30–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies FBSA lecture Room G22/26

Friends of the British School at Athens lecture

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: International history Low Countries Room

Sir Frank Lascelles as ambassador at Berlin

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends talk Room 104

T. Sturge Moore: man of letters

19:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: London society for medieval studies Wolfson Room

Alcuin and the insular Latin parrhesiasts, or speaking the truth to power in the early middle ages

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Patrick Bourn (Leeds) H

Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies) Cu

Mary Garrison (York) H

Wednesday 25 May 2011 11:00–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Overseas Service Pensioners’ Association Witness seminar Venue tbc

The ‘Westminster model’ and representative government in the era of decolonization Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), Christopher Cochran, Thomas Russell CMG CBE, Simon Gillett, David Murray, Ian Buist CB, Hubert J B Allen, John Twining, Wyn Reilly, John H Smith CBE, Sir Brian Barder KCMG, Colin A Baker MBE, Jonathan C Lawley Cu, D, E, H, Hu, Po

12:00–14:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room G32

Dolores del Rio: beauty, celebrity and power in two cultures Linda Hall (New Mexico) Cu, S

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12:30–14:00 Institute of English Studies Director’s seminar Room G35

May—September 2011

Australian Dictionary of Biography and Obituaries Australia Paul Arthur (Australian National) Cu

14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Director’s work in progress Warburg Institute

Passio Perpetuae and its later interpreters: from the Exemplum Fidei to the Admirandum, Non Imitandum Petr Kitzler H

17:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room 103

Stakeholders empire: the political economy of Spanish rule in America Alejandra Irigoin (LSE) E, Po

17:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Classical archaeology Room G22/26

Classical archaeology seminar

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century Wolfson Room

The Georgian godfather: Joseph Merceron and corruption in the east end of London c. 1780-1820

18:00–19:30 Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Lecture Chancellor’s Hall

Truthmaker semantics

18:30–21:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: Visual culture Room ST274

Alternative worlds. A retrospective of the last 111 years

Lauren Hackworth Petersen (Delaware) C

Julian Woodford H

Kit Fine (New York) P

Daniel García-Castellanos (CSIC, Barcelona): ‘Science and Myth of other possible Mediterraneans’ Ricarda Vidal (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies): ‘Atlantropa – 1927 to 2011’ Deborah Jaffé: ‘Utopia – Clara Louisa Wells’ Cu

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Thursday 26 May 2011 26–28 May 2011 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Canterbury Christ Church University

Baltic musics and musicologies

26–27 May 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Conference / Symposium Room ST273

8th international postgraduate conference on current research in Austrian literature

12:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Macmillan & Chancellor’s Halls

In the shadow of the ICC: Colombia and international criminal justice

For more information see p.15 M

For more information see p.14 Cu

For more information see p.15 Hu, L, Po

13:30–18:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Christian missions in global history German Historical Institute

Workshop on Middle East missions: nationalism, religious liberty and cultural encounter

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35

Music, gender and identity among the Kazakhs of Mongolia

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Saida Daukeyeva (Institute of Musical Research) Chair: Veronica Doubleday (Brighton) M

17:00–18:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Maps and society Warburg Institute

Local maps in medieval Europe. The last twenty years P. D. A. Harvey (Durham) Cu, H, S

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the 17th century Germany Room

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British history in the 17th century Phil Withington (Cambridge) H

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17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Postgraduate and early career Low Countries Room

May—September 2011

Divide et impera and radicalize: British imperialism and Turkish nationalism in Cyprus between the wars Ilia Xypolia (Keele) H

19:00–20:30 Institute of English Studies Poetry Society annual lecture 2011 Beveridge Hall

On being old

19:00–21:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Ingeborg Bachmann Centre reading Other

Reading by Anna Kim

C.K Williams (poet) Cu

Anna Kim (writer), Mike Mitchell (translator) Cu

Friday 27 May 2011 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute Workshop Warburg Institute

The Nile in medieval thought Pavel Blazek (Academy of Sciences, the Czech Republic) and Charles Burnett and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) By invitation only. Contact charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk or alessandro.scafi@sas.ac.uk C

13:00–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Research training Room G22/26

Publishing and the early career classicist

14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Research training reading group Room G27

Classic texts in music and culture

14:30–15:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Ingeborg Bachmann Centre seminar Room ST273

Anna Kim - meet the author

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17:30–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Singapore Room 104

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Singapore as mediated space: screens, virtual worlds and simulacra, or, what a small tropical island can do with a little more imagination Jenna P-S. Ng (Ume, Sweden)

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes Wolfson Room

Dr Faustus and the Aztecs: magic, lust and knowledge in the 16th century David Marsh H

Tuesday 31 May 2011 12:30–14:30 Institute of Philosophy Seminar series: Logic and metaphysics forum Room G26

Logic and metaphysics forum

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500-1800 Germany Room

An overview of the Durham University State Prayers Project’s early modern findings to date

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Locality & region Ecclesiastical History Room

Inigo Jones and the Parliament House

Mark Wilson (Pittsburgh) P

Stephen Taylor, Natalie Mears and Lucy Bates H

Alistair Hawkyard (Institute of Historical Research) H

Wednesday 1 June 2011 12:30–14:00 Institute of English Studies Director’s seminar Room G37

The English novels of Elizabeth van Hoof: a literary time capsule from the 1930s Kate Macdonald (Ghent) Cu

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Contemporary British history Wolfson Room

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The Parliament Acts reconsidered Vernon Bogdanor (King’s, London) H

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17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Psychoanalysis and history Low Countries Room

Coining empathy: aesthetics as psychology

18:00–19:00 Warburg Institute Inaugural lecture Beveridge Hall

Thinking about the audience in rhetoric, literature and painting

Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck) H

For more information see p.8 C, Cu, P, S

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends talk Room 103

Bestsellers II: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy Sally Dugan (Oxford Brookes) Cu

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Fellows’ annual lecture Wolfson & Pollard Rooms

The Royal Mail and the Great Train Robbery of 1963 Duncan Campbell-Smith H

Thursday 2 June 2011 11:00–16:00 Institute of Musical Research Colloquium Court Room

South Asia music and dance forum

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient history Room G22/26

Changing bodies: Greek sculpture vs. stuffed natives at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham: defining the Classical body in 1850s London

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Kate Nichols (York) C 17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history 18151946 Room G21a

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Boudica in the British historical imagination, 1800-1916 Martha Vandrei (King’s, London) H

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17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35

Birtwistle’s operas and music theatre since 2000

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of education Room G34

Democratising English: changing the subject in post-war classrooms

David Beard (Cardiff) Chair: Arnold Whittall (King’s, London) M

John Hardcastle (Institute of Education) and Peter Medway (King’s, London) H

18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies Hilda Hulme memorial lecture Beveridge Hall

“Ha-ha-ha. Hi-hi-hi. Ho-ho-ho. Ha-hi-ho”: representing sounds in 16th and 17th century English literature For more information see p.6 Cu

18:00–20:00 Institute of Philosophy Chandaria lecture series Senate Room

Reasons, reasoning and rationality: a cognitive and social perspective: reasons in reasoning Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod; CEU) P

Friday 3 June 2011 09:30–18:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Conference / Symposium Room ST273

Youth challenges traditions? Reconsidering changes in Austrian and British society 19601989

10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute Conference / Symposium Warburg Institute

Tommaso Campanella and the arts of writing

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Performance/Research seminar Chancellor’s Hall

‘Music from the hybridies’: Jazz as national and trans-national practice

For more information see p.15 Cu, H, S

For more information see p.15 Cu, H

Tony Whyton (Salford) M

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18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Finnegans Wake research Room G35

May—September 2011

Finnegans Wake research Cu

Saturday 4 June 2011 10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST276

The PhD viva, applying for a job, getting your PhD published

14:00–16:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Education in the long 18th century Germany Room

Dissenting academies and educational change, 1660-1750

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: EMPHASIS (Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination) Room 104

Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination

For more information see research training p.73

Mark Burden and Tessa Whitehouse (Queen Mary)

Hannah Dawson (Edinburgh) Cu

Monday 6 June 2011 15:00–17:30 Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends visit The National Art Library

The National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum Cu

16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute Seminar series: History of Art Warburg Institute

Angels and theatrical dress in fifteenth-century Florentine painting, with particular reference to Verrocchio Lisa Monnas Cu, H

18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar Charles Clore House

Terrorism litigation as a deterrence under international law – from human rights litigation to countering Hybrid Threats Sascha Bachmann (Portsmouth) L

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18:00–21:30 Institute of Historical Research Other events Chancellor’s Hall

Events calendar

Film evening with Terry Jones Terry Jones will present a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Cu, H

Tuesday 7 June 2011 10:30–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Research training Room 254, Library Training Suite

Internet sources for historical research

16:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Court Room

Mexico and the Inter-American Human Rights System

For more information see p.73

Hu, Po 17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: London group of historical geographers Wolfson Room

Space, sovereignty and identity: Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: International history Low Countries Room

The FO, mercenaries and African coups in 1960s

Adam Ramadan (Cambridge) H

Christopher Kinsey (King’s, London) H

Wednesday 8 June 2011 8–11 June 2011 10:15–18:00 Warburg Institute Seminar Warburg Institute

Seminari Bruniani (Quattordicesimo ciclo)

14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Director’s work in progress Warburg Institute

Mischliteratur and privileges in the age of pyramids: royal and private aspects of the ancient Egyptian afterlife

Roberto Bondì (Università della Calabria), Andrei Rossius (Istituto di Filosofia, Accademia delle Scienze di Russia) C, Cu, P

Antonio Morales H

16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forum McFetridge Room, Birkbeck www.sas.ac.uk

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17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: ICONEA Room 104

May—September 2011

Round table on ‘The epistemologic framework of music: Aristotle, Descartes and Lacan’ Bruno de Florence M

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century Wolfson Room

A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia Opie

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century Wolfson Room

Scottish townscapes and ‘improvement’ in the age of enlightenment c. 1720-1820

17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute Lecture Warburg Institute

The iconic veil: the image-paradigm as a new notion of cultural studies?

Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter) H

Bob Harris (Oxford) H

Alexei Lidov (Institute for World Culture, Lomonosov Moscow State) C, Cu, H, P

18:30–20:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Court Room

Latin American flavour Cesar Alcorta (owner, Brujas de Cachiche restaurant, Lima)

Thursday 9 June 2011 12:00–13:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: Work in progress Room ST276

Ghost hunting in the Magical Library

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient history Room G22/26

Changing bodies: Sympathetic bodies and minds in Greek medicine and philosophy

Sarah Sparkes (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; London) Cu

Brooke Holmes (Princeton) C

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17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35

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The popularisation of medical theory 1730-1810: mental imbalance and physical distortion in musical virtuosity Wiebke Thormählen (Southampton) Chair: Penelope Gouk (Manchester) M

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the 17th century Germany Room

Charles I, the East India Company and the Persia trade

17:30–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar series: International refugee law Charles Clore House

The law of exclusion from refugee status: recent developments

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Postgraduate and early career Low Countries Room

Training the future labour force: chimney sweep apprentices in London, c. 1788-1840

18:30–20:30 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: London theatre Room G37

London theatre

Rupa Mishra (Auburn) H

Geoff Gilbert (Essex) H, Hu, L, Po

Niels Van Manen (Manchester) H

Jerome De Groot (Manchester) Cu

Friday 10 June 2011 18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Room G34

Canto 45

18:00–20:00 Institute of Philosophy Chandaria lecture series Senate Room

Reasons, reasoning and rationality: a cognitive and social perspective: reasons for reasoning Lecture 2.

Mick Sheldon and Tony Dunn Cu

Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod; Central European) P

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Monday 13 June 2011 13–14 June 2011 09:00–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Annual Byzantine colloquium Room G22/26 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

Identity/identities in late medieval Cyprus For more information see p.16 C

Joycean literature: fiction and poetry 1910-2010 For more information see p.16 Cu

10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Senate Room

Responding to climate change in the Caribbean

16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: German philosophy Room G32

German philosophy reading group

16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute Seminar series: History of Art Warburg Institute

Blood in the Frari: art, ritual and empire in Renaissance Venice

For more information see p.16 D, E

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Donal Cooper Cu, H

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Crusades and the Latin East Ecclesiastical History Room

The capture of Acre, 1104, and Baldwin I’s conquest of the littoral

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: European history 1500-1800 Low Countries Room

The business of the Comedie-Francaise in 18thcentury France

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Tudor & Stuart Wolfson Room

Whose city? Civic government and episcopal power in Salisbury, 1590-1640

Susan Edgington (Queen Mary) H

Sabine Chaouche (Oxford Brooks) H

Catherine Patterson (Houston) H

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18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial lecture in English Chancellor’s Hall

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John Coffin Memorial Lecture in English For more information see p.6 Cu

Tuesday 14 June 2011 10:30–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Research training Room 254, Library Training Suite

Databases for historians I

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500-1801 Germany Room

How Protestant was the Elizabethan regime?

17:00–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar Room G32

The SNCF on trial: railroads and the Holocaust in France

For more information see p.73

Neil Younger (Vanderbilt) H

Ludivine Bloch (Birkbeck) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of libraries Room G37

A Bishop and his books: the Hurd Library at Hartelbury Castle

18:00–19:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Black Britain Room G34

Blacks in Tudor Britain

18:00–20:00 Institute of Philosophy Chandaria lecture series Senate Room

Reasons, reasoning and rationality: a cognitive and social perspective: reasoning and rationality.

Lecture 3.

Christine Penney (Hurd Librarian) Cu

Onyeka

Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod; CEU) P

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18:30–20:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Other events Eccles Centre, British Library

May—September 2011

Legacies of emancipation in the Americas Robin Blackburn (Essex), Richard Drayton (King’s, London), Denise Ferreira da Silva (Queen Mary), and Bonnie Greer (playwright and critic) Co-sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library H

Wednesday 15 June 2011 12:30–14:00 School of Advanced Study Dean’s seminar Room G22

Waste and literature: the poet as ragpicker

13:00–14:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Commonwealth research Room 104

We want new settlers of British stock: race and the politics of migration to southern Africa, 19391960

14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Director’s work in progress Warburg Institute

The commentary of George Scholarios (c.1405– c.1472) on the Nicomachean ethics: the reception of Aristotle in Late Byzantium

For more information see p.8 Cu, S

Jean P Smith (Institute of Historical Research)

Philipp Schaefer H

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: ICONEA Room 103

The replication of the silver lyre of Ur

17:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room 104

Black flags/white skulls. Notes on the workings of the racial/biopolitical apparatus in Brazil

17:00–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies Barron memorial lecture Room G22/26

Barron memorial lecture (title tbc)

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Richard Dumbrill M

Denise Ferreira da Silva (Queen Mary)

Judith Herrin C

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18:30–21:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: Visual culture Room ST274

Events calendar

Alternative worlds. A retrospective of the last 111 years Patricia DaSilva McNeill (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies): ‘The last city of the future’: Perspectives on Brasília in Literature, Film and the Media Christopher Daley (Westminster): ‘The landscape is coded’: J.G. Ballard’s Early Fiction and Visual Culture Elena Solomides: ‘JG Ballard’s High-Rise as a critique of modern living’ Cu

Thursday 16 June 2011 16–18 June 2011 18:00 Institute of Historical Research Other events Senate House

Book sale

10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Aesthetics, art and pornography

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series: Ancient history Room G22/26

Changing bodies: The anatomy ritual: representing the body on the Lydion and Phrygian ‘Propitiatory Stelae’

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Jessica Hughes (OU) C 17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history 18151947 Room G21a

British history 1815-1947

17:30–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Linguistic human rights: policy/practice in the Commonwealth’ Room G34

Addressing the issues of mono/multilingualism: technology as strategy in EU institutions

18:30–20:30 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: London theatre Room G35

Panel on costume: wearing, working, feeling, acting

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May—September 2011

Friday 17 June 2011 17–18 June 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute Conference / Symposium Warburg Institute

Francis Bacon and the materiality of the appetites: stoicism, medicine and politics

09:30–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

The future of UK modern languages

09:30–18:00 Human Rights Consortium Workshop Charles Clore House

The Equality and Human Rights Commission of Great Britain: challenges and opportunities

For more information see p.17 Cu, H, P, Po, S

For more information see p.17 Cu

Oganised by Thomas Pegram (Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Consortium) Hu, L

10:00–17:30 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Heythrop College

The power of the word: poetry, theology and life

16:30–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Conversations and disputations: discussions among historians Germany Room

Cultures of memory in early modern England: round table and discussion

18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial poetry reading Heythrop College

The power of the poetic word

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: Charles Peake Ulysses Room G35

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

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Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle), Andrew Hiscock (Bangor), Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge), Andy Wood (East Anglia). Chair: Kate Hodgkin (East London) H

For more information see p.7 Cu

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Monday 20 June 2011 20–24 June 2011 Institute of English Studies Summer school Senate House

London palaeography summer school

09:30–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium British Library

Jornadas REDIAL/ACLAIIR

10:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Charles Clore House

The Great Depression in the Americas and its legacies

For more information see p.9 Cu

For more information see p.18 Cu

For more information see p.19 E, H, Po

16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute Seminar series: History of Art Warburg Institute

Children’s games in the Renaissance

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Tudor & Stuart Room ST274/275

Another Charles restored in 1660? The reestablishment of the court of Charles of Lorraine

Chiara Franceschini Cu, H,

Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Voluntary action history Low Countries Room

For the sick poor? Payment and philanthropy and the pre-NHS voluntary hospital system, c.19001948 George Campbell Gosling (Oxford Brookes) H

Tuesday 21 June 2011 18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: International history Low Countries Room

www.sas.ac.uk

British occupation policy in post-war Germany Christopher Knowles (King’s, London) H

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Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute Seminar series: Director’s work in progress Warburg Institute

Chiliasmus crassus versus Chiliasmus subtilis?

The roots of Comenius’ Millenarianism

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: ICONEA Room STB7

An Old Babylonian lament with instruments

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends talk Room ST273

Bestsellers III: Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

Vladimir Urbánek H

Irving Finkel (British Museum) M

Michael Slater (Birkbeck) Cu

Thursday 23 June 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

The state of aesthetics

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the 17th century Germany Room

The fountain of news: manipulating and suppressing diplomatic information in late Jacobean England

For more information see p.19 P

David Coast (Sheffield) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar series: American history Pollard Room

Kids and cowboys: surrogate fatherhood as a measure of masculinity and status on the cattle frontier, 1865-1900 Jackie Moore (Austin College, Texas) H

Friday 24 June 2011 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes Wolfson Room

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Embassy and English gardens in the 17th century: diplomatic contributions to gardening Pippa Potts (Courtauld Institute) H

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May—September 2011

18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University Trust Fund lecture and reading Room ST274/275

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The house of mirth: Jewish Italian reflections For more information see p.7 Cu

Saturday 25 June 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium Wolfson & Pollard Rooms

New histories of 19th century crime

11:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: London 19th century studies Room G22/26

World cities symposium

For more information see p.19 Cu

Strand organisers: Josephine McDonagh (King’s, London) and Matthew Beaumont (UCL) Cu

Monday 27 June 2011 27 June–8 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Summer school Senate House

London rare books school

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Tudor & Stuart Wolfson Room

Sermons, separatists and the succession in late Elizabethan England

For more information see p.9 Cu

Michael Questier (Queen Mary) H

17:30–20:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Harry Allen memorial Lecture & University College Commonwealth Fund lecture & Symposium Court Room

Into the American Civil war: party system, liminal rupture, and nation-building in the North John Brooke (Ohio State) To be followed by an international colloquium, 28-29 June (attendance by invitation only): ‘Parties, politics and the people: rethinking popular political engagement in the United States, 1789-1861 H, Po

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Collecting & display 100BC to AD1701 Room ST275

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Princely pursuits: the collecting practices of the Camondo family Barbara Lasic (V&A Museum) C, H

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May—September 2011

Tuesday 28 June 2011 28–30 June 2011 09:30–16:30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies W G Hart legal workshop Charles Clore House

Sovereignty in question

11:00–19:00 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium King’s College London

Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations Op.120

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500-1802 Germany Room

Confessional politics at the English Benedictine Convent in Brussels, 1620-1623

17:00–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar Room ST273

The Jews and modern capitalism at 100: Werner Sombart, historical sociology, and the politics of Jewish economic distinctiveness, 1911-2011

For more information see p.19 L

For more information see p.20 M

Jaime Goodrich (Wayne) H

Adam Sutcliffe (King’s, London) H 18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin memorial lecture in the history of the book Room G22/26

John Coffin memorial lecture in the history of the book For more information see p.7 Cu

Wednesday 29 June 2011 29 June–1 July 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies 4th international Media for All conference Senate House

Audiovisual translation: taking stock

29 June–1 July 2011 09:00–21:00 Institute of Historical Research 2011 Anglo-American conference Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Health in history

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17:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Court Room

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Tengo un vochito en mi corazón: the Volkswagen Beetle in Mexico Bernhard Rieger (UCL) Cu, S

Thursday 30 June 2011 17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history 18151948 Room G21a

British history 1815-1948 H

Friday 1 July 2011 1–2 July 2011 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium King’s College London

Opera and philosophy For more information see p.21 M, P

Tuesday 5 July 2011 5–6 July 2011 09:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

Ancient literary criticism

Institute of English Studies 24th International Ezra Pound conference Senate House

Ezra Pound and London

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of libraries Venue tbc

“All casualties unto which all things in this mortall life are subject”: the libraries of archbishops John Whitgift and Richard Bancroft

For more information see p.21 C

For more information see p.21 Cu

James Carley (York, Ontario) Cu

Wednesday 6 July 2011 09:30–18:00 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium Charles Clore House

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Shadow cities: realities and representations For more information see p.21 D, H

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16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Perception, senses and action forum Room STB8

May—September 2011

Predictive coding Marc Ernest P

Thursday 7 July 2011 7–9 July 2011 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium University of Surrey

Mahler: contemporary of the past?

For more information see p.22 M

Friday 8 July 2011 16:00–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: From textual to visual Room STB7

From textual to visual Cu

Saturday 9 July 2011 9–17 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Summer school Senate House

The T. S. Eliot international summer school

09:30–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Collecting & display 100BC to AD1702 Wolfson & Pollard Rooms

Methodologies for the study of collecting

For more information see p.9 Cu

All day workshop C, H

Monday 11 July 2011 11–13 July 2011 Institute of Historical Research Research training Wolfson Room

Local history summer school

16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: German philosophy Room 103

German philosophy reading group

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Tuesday 12 July 2011 18:00–21:00 Institute of Historical Research Marc Fitch lecture Chancellor’s Hall

18th-century London: the pulse on a world city Jeremy Black (Exeter) H

Wednesday 13 July 2011 10:30–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Research training Room 254, Library Training Suite

Databases for historians II: practical database tools For more information see research training p.73

Thursday 14 July 2011 17:30–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar series: Linguistic human rights: policy/practice in the Commonwealth Room ST275

Language Policy and Political Conflict in Colonial Uganda Hu, Po, S

Friday 15 July 2011 10:00–16:30 Institute of Historical Research School of Advanced Study Conference / Symposium Charles Clore House

Open access publishing in the humanities For more information see p.22 Cu

Monday 18 July 2011 18–23 July 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Summer school Room ST274/275

Use your language, use your English

Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

Victorian Popular Fiction Association 3rd annual conference: sex, courtship and marriage in Victorian popular culture

For more information see p.9 Cu

For more information see p.22 Cu

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May—September 2011

Wednesday 20 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

Literary London 2011: representations of London in literature For more information see p.22 Cu

Monday 25 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

Language, culture and society in Russian/English studies For more information see p.22 Cu

Friday 29 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

English literary manuscripts 1450-1700 For more information see p.23 Cu

Tuesday 26 July 2011 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

EACLALS postgraduate conference: reworking postcolonialism: globalization, labour and rights For more information see p.23 Cu

Friday 26 August 2011 14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Research training reading group Room G27

Classic texts in music and culture For more information see research training p.73 M

Wednesday 7 September 2011 7–9 September 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Venue tbc

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Designing the Commodities Gateway: challenges in representing and accessing commodity histories digitally For more information see p.23

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Thursday 8 September 2011 14:45–14:45 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

Spectres of world literature For more information see p.24 Cu

Monday 12 September 2011 12–14 September 2011 Institute of Musical Research Colloquium Room G22/26

Medieval song network workshop 2 Cu, M

Tuesday 13 September 2011 18:00–20:30 Institute of Musical Research John Coffin Trust Fund recital The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great

Medieval song network For more information see p.8 M

Wednesday 14 September 2011 14–16 September 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies conference Room ST274/275

German-speaking exiles in the performing arts in Britain For more information see p.24 Cu, H

Thursday 15 September 2011 09:30–18:00 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

The popular imagination and the dawn of modernism: middlebrow writing 1890-1930 For more information see p.24 Cu

Saturday 17 September 2011 Institute of Musical Research Colloquium Room G22/26

Royal Musical Association annual general meeting and Dent Medal Study Day in honour of Martin Stokes M

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Wednesday 21 September 2011 21–23 September 2011 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Postdramatic theatre as/or political theatre: representation, mediatisation and advanced capitalism For more information see p.25 Cu

Friday 23 September 2011 09:30–17:30 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

The writing of Rose Macaulay

10:30–17:00 Institute of English Studies Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

Don Juan: interdisciplinary symposium

For more information see p.25 Cu

For more information see p.25 Cu

Tuesday 27 September 2011 10:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Senate Room

Eric Williams and the making of modern Trinidad and Tobago For more information see p.26 Cu, H, Po

Friday 30 September 2011 10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

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Was autonomy the wrong ideal? Autonomous judgement and its critics For more information see p.26 P

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Research training

Research training 2 May 2011 Institute of English Studies Venue tbc

Medieval manuscript studies in the digital age

3 May 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Senate House

Visual sources for historians

The Institute of English Studies is pleased to offer again this AHRC-funded training programme on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts. Organised in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King’s London, and held jointly in Cambridge and London.

The course stresses the practical application of theoretical principles and gives participants both a solid theoretical foundation and also ‘hands-on’ experience in the cataloguing and editing of original medieval manuscripts in both print and digital formats.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Lynne Walker Taking place every Tuesday Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

3 May 2011 10:00–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Room 254, Library Training Suite

GIS for historians

5 May 2011 17:30–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Room G27

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Ian Gregory Contact: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

John Tosh, Sally Alexander, John Seed Taking place every Thursday Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

7 May 2011 10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST276

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Organising a conference, giving a paper, writing an article, editing books and journals Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk

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Research training

9–13 May 2011 Warburg Institute Warburg Institute

Resources and techniques for the study of Renaissance and early modern culture Interdisciplinary training programme for research students covering skills such as the use of electronic resources, archival sources, visual sources, manuscripts, early printed books etc. as well as important topics such as getting published.

Also included are visits to libraries and art collections in London.

Contact: elizabeth.witchell@sas.ac.uk Co-organised with the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick University

13 May 2011 10:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Room G22/26

Researching the Caribbean: a research student workshop

14 May 2011 10:30–16:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Charles Clore House

A training day for law PhDs

27 May 2011 13:00–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Room G22/26

Publishing and the early career classicist

27 May 2011 14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Room G27

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The workshop will be led by Kate Quinn and Steve Cushion (both Institute for the Study of the Americas) This half-day workshop is for research students working on any aspect of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Postgraduate students located in discipline-based departments often find they are the sole scholar within their department working on the Caribbean. This workshop seeks to bring together students who share a common interest in the Caribbean to share their work with regional specialists in a friendly and informal setting. Doctoral students at all stages in their research and from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Dr Lisa Webley (Westminster) on literature review and PhDs in law and qualitative and quantative research for PhDs; Dr Helen Xanthaki (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) on comparative legal research; Gerry Power and Hester Swift (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library) on Electronic legal research.

Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

A half-day workshop aimed at providing practical advice on publishing opportunities for postgraduates and early career classicists Contact: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool) Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Research training

4 June 2011 10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST276

The PhD viva, applying for a job, getting your PhD published

7 June 2011 10:30–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Room 254, Library Training Suite

Internet sources for historical research

14 June 2011 10:30–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Room 254, Library Training Suite

Databases for historians I

11–13 July 2011 10:00–16:30 Institute of Historical Research Wolfson Room

Local history summer school

13 July 2011 10:30–17:00 Institute of Historical Research Room 254, Library Training Suite

Databases for historians II: practical database tools

26 Augst 2011 14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Room G27

Classic texts in music and culture

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Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk

Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

Mark Merry Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

For more information see p.9 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

Mark Merry Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool) Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Calls for papers

Calls for papers Independence & after: Dr Eric Williams & the making of Trinidad and Tobago 27 September 2011 Institute for the Study of the Americas CFP deadline: 6 May 2011 To mark the centenary of the birth of Dr Eric Williams and in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of independence in Trinidad and Tobago, this one-day conference will explore the shaping of Trinidadian politics and society under the Williams’ administration and the legacies of this period today. The London conference is part of a series of events on the Williams’ centenary which will begin with a 2-day conference on Williams as Scholar and Statesman at Oxford University on the 24th and 25th September.

Possible themes include but are not restricted to: Williams, the PNM and: - The challenges of independence - Political Culture and Political Institutions in Trinidad and Tobago - The Politics of Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago - The shaping of the economy in Trinidad and Tobago - Race and Ethnicity in the politics and society of Trinidad and Tobago - Cultural policy and nationalism - The end of PNM dominance?

Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk Contact: abstracts of no more than 500 words along with a short bio or c.v. should be submitted to kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk and p.sutton@londonmet.ac.uk

Debussy text and idea. International Debussy Symposium 12-13 April 2012 at Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, London EC1N 2HH Institute of Musical Research CFP deadline: 15 June 2011 To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Gresham College and the Institute of Musical Research of the University of London (IMR), The Royal College of Music and the School of Modern Languages at Bangor University present an international symposium centred on the links between Claude Debussy and the literary and visual arts.

Other collaborators in this initiative are the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies of the University of London (IGRS) and the Literature and Music Research Group of the Open University Faculty of Arts.

Presentations centred on the music of Debussy with textual associations are warmly invited from scholars worldwide as are papers concerned with his associations with the visual arts and the contextual ideas surrounding the composer’s work. The symposium aims to bring together musical and literary scholars as well as those in the visual arts. Presentations in these fields do not need specifically to enter into detail of musical analysis; papers essentially on the literature rather than the music are particularly welcome. Papers should be presented in English, and should last no longer than 20 minutes (inclusive of musical excerpts and/or performance, where relevant). The symposium will encourage extended discussions surrounding each of the presentations. Audio and video equipment will be on hand as well as a grand piano.

Website: www.music.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=960 Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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How to find us Venue Unless otherwise stated, all events are held in the School of Advanced Study which is located within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House or Stewart House which are adjacent.

The School of Advanced Study is part of the University of London and takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate such needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it confidentially with the event organiser ahead of the event taking place.

Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows: Room STB2 Room STB3 Room STB6 Room G22/24 Room G34 Room G35 Room G37 The Beveridge Hall Macmillan Hall Room 102 Room 103 The Chancellor’s Hall The Court Room The Senate House Room Room 254, Library Training Suite Room ST273 Room ST274 Room ST275 Room ST276 Common Room Ecclesiastical History Room Germany Room Low Countries Room Wolfson Room Charles Clore House IALS Lecture Theatre Warburg Institute

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A number of events will be held at external venues.

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How to find us By tube Nearest underground stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly line) Goodge Street (Northern line) Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern lines) Euston Square (Circle and Metropolitan lines) Euston Station (Victoria and Northern lines) By rail Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras International mainline stations are within walking distance. The other London mainline stations are a short tube or taxi journey away.

By air From Heathrow, the Piccadilly tube line provides a service to Russell Square (approximately 45 minutes).

From Gatwick, there is a mainline train service to Victoria station (30 minutes) where tube trains and taxis are available.

Car parking facilities Public car parking is not available at Senate House.

NCP at Woburn Place & Bloomsbury Place.

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If you would like to find out more about the Institutes of the School contact the following: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk Email: ials@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 5800 Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) Website: www.icls.sas.ac.uk Email: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8700 Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) Website: www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Email: ics@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8844 Institute of English Studies (IES) Website: www.ies.sas.ac.uk Email: ies@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8675 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) Website: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk Email: igrs@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8677 Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Website: www.history.ac.uk Email: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8740 Institute of Musical Research (IMR) Website: www.music.sas.ac.uk Email: music@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7664 4865 Institute of Philosophy (IP) Website: www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8683 Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk Email: americas@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8870 Warburg Institute (WI) Website: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8949

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